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Tilda Swindon sleeping at MoMA

Actress Tilda Swinton will be sleeping in a glass box at MoMA at unannounced times between now and the end of the year. It's part of a performance piece called "The Maybe." “Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real shared time," the museum said in a statement.

This is definitely one of those "is this art?" moments. What do you think?

Haha! Am I the only person who laughed out loud at how ridiculous this is? No one would care about this piece if not for her celebrity. Reminds me of the last season of Sex and the City when Carrie meets the Russian at a similar art exhibit. I just can't take this seriously. I sincerely hope she's donating any profits made to charity.

Swinton did this once before in 1995, in London at the Serpentine Gallery. I remember a newspaper report about a man banging on the glass and shouting, "wake up you stupid b*tch!" or something like that. I think the piece is kind of awesome and interesting.

When I first saw this I thought, how is this art? How boring. But I guess when you think about it, we're all works of art (Gods). I guess we should all make placards with our name and what we are wearing and wear them around our neck. She is no more a work of art than I am. I'm just sayin.

Have you seen this? Marina Abramovic sharing silence with strangers, and then with her ex love. MoMa again. Very human and heartbreaking in a way:http://zengarage.com.au/2013/03/marina-abramovic-and-ulay/

Hasn't this been done a few times before? Maybe I am just thinking of that Sex and the City episode as others have mentioned, but I'm pretty sure this road has been traveled down its just this time its a celebrity...

I think it's neat even if it isn't art in the way we usually think of it. Art is pretty hard to nail down a solid definition for anyways, when you get down to it. I wonder if she actually sleeps in there. I'm not sure I could, being in a weird environment with so many people around. Could you?

This reminds me of Marina Abramovic's piece at MOMA that i wish i'd gone to. I'd love to happen upon Tilda by chance, but in the days of Twitter the cat is probably out of the bag as soon as she appears in the glass box.

I suppose anything could be art. That is something to be decided by the viewer, I think. I personally, do not think this is art. Unless of course... she's an avid sleep talker. Then it would be kind of entertaining. : )

I'm not really a fan of these art installations. Call my tastes conservative or old fashioned, but I think of art as something pretty and that appeals to my tastes. An actress sleeping in a museum/gallery is meh. It just strikes me as pretentious. I know that people say art can be anything that gets people talking, but I call BS.

Yes, this is art to me. I think art is meant to create a reaction, connect with the viewer and get the viewer to think about the world. I think actors are most certainly artists as well and Tilda is very talented. It's funny that we try to define what art is when it's very existence challenges it's definition constantly. My favorite thing about art these days is performance and installation work that brings people together face to face. We need more things that do that in this world.